halloween cruise/ Magic: October 28th-nov..4th 2006

[missyoh8]

We as well......gave a little consideration to switching to the 11 day in September. Last week when we got that mailer, we did give a little thought, but all in all didn't think we could swing getting the other 4 adults in our party to agree and get schedules changed without a lot of headache to say the least!

Have fun Captain....you will have to stop by afterward and give us the lowdown!


Missy

 

[kritter]

Capt,
Sorry to see you gone...What ever will you do with those costumes now..???
We will miss your post but do expect one at least once a week from you....


Anyone want to volunteer to host the ice cream eating contest???
Also do not forget to vote for your favorite t-shirt designs on our web site..and if you need the link let me know...thanks

 

[fourlittlemunchkins]

Don't blame you at all Captain, sounds like you are doing what is in the best interest for your family. The mailer was the whole reason I was looking into that cruise myself. I like the idea of the 11 day honestly. I'm afraid that 7 days is just going to fly by and be over before we know it.

Have a great time and who knows maybe we will see you there.

Evelyn

 

[captaincrash]

Don't blame you at all Captain, sounds like you are doing what is in the best interest for your family. The mailer was the whole reason I was looking into that cruise myself. I like the idea of the 11 day honestly. I'm afraid that 7 days is just going to fly by and be over before we know it.

Have a great time and who knows maybe we will see you there.

Evelyn

Actually... for us .... having done a few sailings before WE'D SAY... 7 days is perfect! Now - 3 days is quick - but also tolerable. And 4 days is a decent deal too. Now we've done a 5 day and this almost felt liek a 7 ... but 7 is just "right" in our book. My spouse got her way ... as usual.

And thank you for the gracious remarks folks. I'm gonna miss the gang here - no doubt. But if OK... I'll visit and lurk a bit every now and then. Plus I might be around on embarkation morning too in Orlando if anything is going on with the DIS gang.

So ... I'd like to share some quick info that is sure to save folks a little cash IF you're driving to the port in a rental car. Normally the options are just Avis and Budget... but i just found out that THRIFTY has a new office 3 miles away and a FREE shuttle.

Use the Promotion Code WMRT for a 10% off discount

Following are the rates after the 10% discount for a ONE NITE RENTAL from October 27th -28th.

Economy Car per day is $16.19
Compact Car per day is $17.81
Mid-Size Car per day is $20.24
Standard or FULL Size Car per day is $26.72
VAN ....................... $30.77 ..... however, for the weekend it was $27.68!
Convertible ............. $30.45
SUV ....................... $36.04
Premium (Chrysler Pacifica / bad rear visability) ...... $49.41
Luxury (Chrysler A300 Touring)................... $56.51
Mack Truck ............ $98.22 (special license required)
Flexible flyer tricycle... $0.52 ($10 CDW mandatory however... beware)

If you want the car for 2 days just double the price. When I went to book for October 27th (yeah - I'm still flying in as I would otherwise lose 85% of my money on the flight).... and get this... I reserved a DODGE CARAVAN 7 passenger van from October 27th to the 30th for only $27.68 a day!!!! The total including taxes was $83.04 with the WMRT discount code! Previously - I held Avis and/or budet reservations for about $50 for ONE days' rental on a full size. Yeah... Thrifty has them trumped on price and car classes!!!! PLUS - I might add that for some reason I could not get the discount code to work on the PC to MCO debarkation rental. AND - the MCO to PC rental had a $10 drop charge... but not on the reverse. SO watch for that.

You can book the above rates right on Thrifty.com

Cheers!

Oh yeah.... the Mack truck... I'll take 3 please!

 

[princessh]

Capt.,
Sad to see you change ships, but I completely undertand. It is a great offer. If it were not for us having our plane tickets, already giving my daycare children the dates I will be closed, and all the time Timmy would miss from school, I would be we be sailing then too! You will be missed around here!

 

[awoltoday]

Crash,
I certainly can't blame you for switching to that cruise. I think the deal(s) they have going for those sailings are extremely difficult to pass up! Especially with the airfare they are including.

You are now obligated to post the links to your pictures when you get back!

Well....
... I was waiting to see what happened with everything else here ... but when my spouse got back last thursday she went through the mail and said - Tom!... look at THIS! It was a post card for the Southern sailings on DCL with $199 air. Well... we had everything already "set" for Halloween and I was think ... "oh no, not again...". She explained that this southern cruise was EVERYTHING we wanted and so on - dis and dat. So I made a reservation on a courtesy hold last friday while holding our Halloween voyage. Over the weekend we talked about it and we have a number of complications. Changing air from October to September would have lost 85% of the fare value to penalties and the new ticket would have cost MORE. We are near exclusive United Airline patrons. And we made dozens of calls to sort through the madness. And finally we got the air untangled and then - DCL inventory control had a snafu - which was unraveled just this morning. I was waiting for the final untangling to say anything here.

SO... I am sorry to say after about 350 posts (most of them very long winded) representing a near novel in length - plus after posting probably 100+ photos we are are shifting our res. We had a special sailing on the Magic 2 years ago but it was all messed up by hurricane Francis - and converted into a Western sailing of 4 days - probably our desired type of cruise. but since we were already in Orlando ready to meet the ship we went - besides, they spiffed us a veranda plus transfers to Fort Lauderdale to meet the ship embarkation.

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... (J/K!)

So.... I know I've got maybe 2 dozen t-shirt designs that need sharpening should any win the design contest. No problem - I promise to by "johnny on the spot" in delivering a finished file if it wins. Plus, I am not entirely gone - as I am still ....... welcome to post here .... right? AND, as a consequence of making my changes I opted not to take an 85% loss on my October Orlando flights and instead took a 28% penalty and will still fly out for the weekend of the 28th. I might be able to duck in on a pre-cruise gathering if someone will let us know when and where?

So, you're ditching us. But, you want to stick around to rub it in?

I briefly checked out that cruisemeets thread - you are going to have your hands full keeping up over there!

So - I would like to take this opportunity to declare that everyone here has been simply wonderful as parteners in crime for the DIS group on this sailing. I'm sure it's likely to be MORE FUN without a Jedi and Padame on the cruise... as the Star Wars costumes are not very halloween-like.

What? C'mon, what is MORE halloween like than Star Wars costumes? And you can still tote those costumes to MNSSHP, right? So, you don't get out of hauling them all the way across the country!!

Oh yeah... remember how I already ordered custom made sweat shirts and T-shirts? Yup, those are custom printed with our names and the Halloween cruise dates! I don't suppose anyone is named Alicia and TOm on the ship - in a size petite and large? Cuz I can make them a good deal on custom printed garments... especially if they had 2 kids named Julianna and Kalea on the cruise ... in appropriate sizes!

I would be happy to take your shirts aboard and maybe even take some pictures of GDAC & I wearing them while testing the Mickey pool urine detection system theory! But, I call Alicia's shirt!

Mack Truck ............ $98.22 (special license required)

CDL ......................... $100
Squashing little cars..... PRICELESS!!

 

[awoltoday]

Have fun Captain, enjoy those extra 4 days.

You just wanted to snag post #2200...

I forgot to do the paid off the cruise dance! We're all in!



100 days of anticipation on the wall, 100 days of constipation, you take one down, pass it around....

 

[Tluvs2talk]

CAPTAINCRASH- I was originally signed up for the 11 day cruise, but we switched to the halloween cruise. Rick could not take off that much time from work as we had already cruised this year, Anyway I will miss your postings and I am sorry I did not get to meet you or your family in person. maybe our paths will meet in the future on a Disney cruise. Happy sailings to you and yours.


Teri

 

[captaincrash]

Crash,
I certainly can't blame you for switching to that cruise. I think the deal(s) they have going for those sailings are extremely difficult to pass up! Especially with the airfare they are including.

You are now obligated to post the links to your pictures when you get back!
................

!!

OK.... so I knew I wasn't gonna get off as lightly as it seemed - initially. I was chuckling though all the running commentary! And you're right about one thing... I'll have a tough time keeping up with the meet thread on the other sailing. On the other thread I spoofed a photo BECAUSE the 2nd reply to my 1st posting asked how I might look in a grass skirt... they have a few of the guys agreeing to show up for a couple DIS events in a grass skirt. So - the thread had a link to show what last years' grass skirt gathering looked like - and I responded with a spoofed photo converted as following....

And after about a DAY... look what someone did to MY photo!!!!..............

So ... needless to say ... but I sort of responded with this....

And, of course .... when I showed my spouse and kids they all could not stop laughing!!! Oh well... I don't know what I've gotten myself into. So.... Teri, now I understand why transferring to the Halloween voyage might have been a very wise move!!!!! If only I had known.....

 

[buckifan]

Capt- Hope you have a great time on the 11 day! I too would love to be on that cruise, but I'm already nervous enough about taking the kids out of school for 6 days.......couldn't do any more than that. Your girls are at a good age to make those longer trips during the school year, so do it while you can!

 

[kritter]

Crash you are keeping us laughing with the pictures like always...


Hoping that you will be able to meet this little group of ours on the morning we disembark..that would be neat to meet your family...what do you think??


AWOL congrats on being paid in full!!!!!

KEEP THE VOTES FOR THE T-SHIRTS COMING IN!!! I may send out an email reminding you all to vote...thanks....Check the web site to see what shirts are in the "running."

 

[GoofyDrivesACar]

KEEP THE VOTES FOR THE T-SHIRTS COMING IN!!! I may send out an email reminding you all to vote...thanks....Check the web site to see what shirts are in the "running."

How long do we have to vote? Been busy the last couple of days and haven't had a chance to show the kids all of the designs, but I will try to get to it in the next couple of days.

 

[XLT800]

I forgot to do the paid off the cruise dance! We're all in!

We will join you. We just paid ours off this morning.

Kristen.....we will try to vote for shirts before this weekend, since we will be gone until Tuesday. We are going to a wedding and for the 1st time in 19 years we will be without kids for 2 nights. It should be fun, the wedding is in Venice, Fl with the reception at a 6.5 million dollar house right on Venice beach. The best part is because it is on the beach it is a casual wedding so no suit and tie.

Dave

 

[awoltoday]

OK.... so I knew I wasn't gonna get off as lightly as it seemed - initially. I was chuckling though all the running commentary! And you're right about one thing... I'll have a tough time keeping up with the meet thread on the other sailing. On the other thread I spoofed a photo BECAUSE the 2nd reply to my 1st posting asked how I might look in a grass skirt... they have a few of the guys agreeing to show up for a couple DIS events in a grass skirt. So - the thread had a link to show what last years' grass skirt gathering looked like - and I responded with a spoofed photo converted as following....

<<<SNIP>>>

And after about a DAY... look what someone did to MY photo!!!!..............

<<<SNIP>>>

ROTFLMAO!!!

 

[awoltoday]

We will join you. We just paid ours off this morning.

Kristen.....we will try to vote for shirts before this weekend, since we will be gone until Tuesday. We are going to a wedding and for the 1st time in 19 years we will be without kids for 2 nights. It should be fun, the wedding is in Venice, Fl with the reception at a 6.5 million dollar house right on Venice beach. The best part is because it is on the beach it is a casual wedding so no suit and tie.

Dave

2 nights without kids! Wow!

 

[princessh]

I guess everyone is dancing today! I just paid off the cruise this morning as well!

 

[missyoh8]

What is the actual day that we can make reservations on line? CC members that is? I am still trying to figure out how to hold on to my money until the last minute. From what I am seeing today, maybe now is the time ....HUH?

Missy

 

[captaincrash]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Well...

If you liked that one - how about these gems I found on the "net".....

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[tchrmom]

2 nights without kids! Wow!

However will we pass the time??????





Fran

 

[princessh]

What is the actual day that we can make reservations on line? CC members that is? I am still trying to figure out how to hold on to my money until the last minute. From what I am seeing today, maybe now is the time ....HUH?

Missy

The day for CC members is July 30. I paid mine today, as I did not want to wait till the last minute. We have a lot going on this next few weeks and my luck, I would forget to pay it and would not be able to make online ressies. You still have some time!

By the way, please tell Bo that Timmy has been very busy. He has not forgotten about Bo, just has not had time to send him an e-mail. He is looking forward to meeting him on the cruise!